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Thread: FUCK YOU, CANCER
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The Bede's American Successor
Curmudgeon-in-Training
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Originally posted by Pyx_e:
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I don't wish trial and travail in the transitory life on anyone. I don't need to, as it will happen to everyone one day.
Can I have your Kilt when you go?
All the best, Pyx_e.
Is the level of dress among the Welsh becoming more civilized?
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Josephine
Orthodox Belle
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My former sister-in-law found out this morning that she has pancreatic cancer.
People with pancreatic cancer don't usually survive very long.
Bede, I appreciate all the wisdom you posted earlier on this thread. I thought about posting this over in all saints, in the prayer thread. But at the moment, I honestly feel more like swearing than praying.
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RuthW
liberal "peace first" hankie squeezer
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Swearing, praying, whatever -- hard to tell the difference sometimes.
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urbanbumpkin
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Fucj yiu cancer, for ruining the lives of two friends, and then, as if that wasn't nough, coming for my MIL when her sister in law is already dying from you. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
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The5thMary
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Ok, thanks a lot, Cancer! Now you've killed about seven of my friends and their family members in this past year alone! What the fuck is your problem, you hateful disease? Are you planning on killing everyone I love? Are you planning on killing me?!
My pastor says we aren't supposed to say "Goddamn" because then we are telling God to damn something. Yeah, well, in this case I think I'm perfectly justified.
GOD-DAMN YOU, CANCER!!!
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Jen.
Godless Liberal
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Fuck you, cancer
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Telepath
Ship's Steamer Trunk
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Fuck you, cancer, for decimating my friends and family and then commissioning a television commercial to jeer about how you're coming to get one in three of us and to rub my face in how awful it feels when the doctor tells you the news.[1] YEAH. WE KNOW.
[1] That's if you're lucky enough to get a doctor who actually tells you straight out instead of saying nothing or just letting it drop in a conversation about something else.
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Jigsaw
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Originally posted by Telepath:
Fuck you, cancer, for decimating my friends and family and then commissioning a television commercial to jeer about how you're coming to get one in three of us and to rub my face in how awful it feels when the doctor tells you the news.[1] YEAH. WE KNOW.
Think this is the ad Telepath refers to:
http://aboutus.cancerresearchuk.org/what-we-do/our-new-tv-campaign/
But cancer didn't commission the ad - Cancer Research UK did. And I don't think it was jeering. Whenever cancer charities run TV ads there's much criticism. They can hurt and upset.
I particularly say "Fuck you Breast Cancer Awareness Month" - known as "Pink October" to us cynics- with its relentless upbeat emphasis on silly pink stuff and fun walks in decorated bras (how crass is that?) and how we can be cured. Well, a lot of us won't be. It hurts me. But the evidence is that these ads work- in the sense that they raise money for research and practical help. People on here have had shit experiences with cancer. I know that. So have I.
I say "Fuck you, cancer" but I know that one in 5 of us will get it at some point and one in 3 of us will die either with or from it. I want the money to come in to prevent it, to detect it early,and to help us all through it.
[your code sucks donkey ass through a straw. get with the programme, for fuck's sake]
[ 01. August 2011, 09:56: Message edited by: Marvin the Martian ]
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Barten
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For what ? damn it !
Spambot content removed. Commandment 9 violation. Poster flagged, PeteC
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Not really a prayer for the dying ...
Clifford Olsen is dying of cancer.
And Hell is the only place for this personification of Evil.
Prayers for all his victims. He wasn't fussy who he killed. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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The stepfather of one of my best friends is dying of cancer.Eight years ago he had a stroke, and that stopped him from his fine woodworking hobby. To console himself, he smoked. Now he has maybe until Christmas, if not before.
No-one has screamed at cancer here for some time. It will never win the war, though we might lose battles.
![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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QuietMBR
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FUCK FUCK FUCK you cancer. I buried a friend you took this past Saturday, will bury another one you stole this coming Saturday, and one more is likely to pass this week. I'm fucking 47 years old and am not supposed to be burying three contemporaries in the span of a week or two.
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lily pad
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Where are the screaming smilies when you need them?
This will have to do.
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Niteowl
Hopeless Insomniac
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A dear friend of mine buried her father last week, yet another victim of cancer. And my niece, who has already battled much in her young life is still fighting her battle.
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South Coast Kevin
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Bump - argh!!!! *\@"*&=
Just found at that someone I know has been diagnosed with breast cancer, the docs think caught quite late. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
The lady is in her early forties and has young children. Any age is too young to get cancer, but this is way too young.
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mark_in_manchester
not waving, but...
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This isn't a rage or a scream, but I guess it's on topic.
Heard today my mate (early 40s, 3 kids) has 9 months to a year to live. Wants to meet old friends before brain tumour takes still more of his thought processes.
The feeling I now have that nothing is worth doing seems ironic, since the gift of (apparently) unlimited time in which to be depressed is exactly what he doesn't have.
Lord have mercy. Please move this if it belongs somewhere else.
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(so good, I wanted to see it after my posts and not only after those of shipmate JBohn from whom I stole it)
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Amazing Grace
High Church Protestant
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Fuck you, cancer. Polly is one of the sweetest and hardest working people I know. Now she's in critical care with a feeding tube and fading fast.
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Rossweisse
High Church Valkyrie
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I am trying to find a bright spot in cancer. I really can't manage it.
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bib
Shipmate
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Thought I had beaten breast cancer, but now it is apparently back again. I don't think I have the energy to fight it again. Cancer is c..p!
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Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
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Amazing Grace
High Church Protestant
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![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Memory Eternal! Sheep 3, Phil the Wise Guy, and Jesus' Evil Twin in the SoF Nativity Play
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Ferijen
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Fuck you cancer, cos I can't even get mad at my mother without thinking that she might not be here this time next year.
I feel bad about being bad.
(Yes, today, it really is All About Me).
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Wilfried
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A couple of weeks ago, we buried (well, shelved the ashes of) a church friend who died of brain cancer. Last night, I found out that the father of a close friend was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer. Mom and Dad had me over for Thanksgiving every, and I mean every, Thanksgiving since 1992. One cancer ends, and another begins. And I saw how unpleasantly the last one ended. Oy vey, how much brain cancer can there be in a month?
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Wilfried
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Friend's Dad died Thursday night, funeral was yesterday.
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Sandemaniac
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What do you say to someone who is selling his gear off to people who he knows will be about to use it much longer than he will be?
AG
(rhetorical question, BTW)
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Adeodatus
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Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
What do you say to someone who is selling his gear off to people who he knows will be about to use it much longer than he will be?
AG
(rhetorical question, BTW)
Forgive my attempt to answer your rhetorical question, Sandemaniac. As always, I hesitate to plant my professional feet in a thread that's mostly about the heart, not the head. But there are things you can say to such a person. Some encouraging, but some cautionary. I've know people who've literally maxed-out the credit card "knowing" they'll soon be gone - only to find themselves still here when it comes to paying the bill.
But mostly, you're right. You say nothing. You stand in awe.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Oh, fuck you for taking Jim Stynes.
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Matariki
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Last year I had tests which showed I had a maneagable chronic lung condition, however I knew what was being ruled out (or in) during the tests was cancer. My heart goes out to all those touched by this condition.
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Spiffy
Ship's WonderSheep
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Well, tomorrow I get to go in and have someone fondle my breasts to determine if that new little bump up in there is cancer. Considering my family history of cysts, I'm more resigned than freaked out because if all goes according to the family medical history, I'll get to go through this about once every three years or so for the rest of my life.
But hey, there was that one time my mother went in thinking it was another cyst and wound up winning the Big C Jackpot, so I can't be too blase about it.
It can still fuck off, because it's going to be the most action the girls will have gotten in YEARS. And those clinicians are never gentle.
(Also? I can't tell anyone in my family about it because they will freak the ever-living fuck out. So I have to tell you guys. Fuck fuck fucking fuck fuckers fuck fuckity fuck.)
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Mary LA
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Wishing you good luck, Spiffy.
I came onto this forum a week or more ago in a state because a close friend had just been told she had breast cancer. I thought I needed to find others who might pray for her, I couldn't pray because I felt too numb and unbelieving. Each bout of news has been more frightening and nightmarish since then. She is due to have a radical mastectomy and the cancer may be in her lymph nodes.
Fuck cancer.
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Spiffy
Ship's WonderSheep
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Fucking cancer.
Just the thought of it has made the last day and a half a mess of worry and stress. Which was not helped by the GP walking out of the room then coming back saying, "I got you a stat appointment at the breast imaging center, they're going to see you in 20 minutes, go hop on the Giant Dangly Terrormobile right now so you don't miss the appointment."
But then the radiologist said, "Yeah, there's something in there, but it's imaging as normal tissue."
So I'm fine.
Except I have to keep poking at this spot to make sure it hasn't changed, because while it doesn't look like cancer NOW, at any fucking minute it could go off.
I have a ticking time bomb boob. Muahaha.
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Niteowl
Hopeless Insomniac
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FUCK YOU CANCER! I lost my niece this afternoon to this evil.
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Kyzyl
Ship's dog
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Spiffy, I just went through a needle localization breast biopsy, so yeah, fuck it. My results were good, hope your's are , too.
Sorry, I should read everything before responding.
[ 19. April 2012, 01:49: Message edited by: Kyzyl ]
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Amazing Grace
High Church Protestant
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Shit, Spiffy!
Fuck you again and again, cancer. Polly's death hit me again in church on Sunday. I still can't believe she is gone, and so fast.
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Wilfried
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I just found out that a friend died of lymphoma. There was a time he was my best friend, but seeing as he lived 8000 miles away, I haven't seen him in a long time, or had much contact. And now he just disappears. I kept meaning to visit (this year, for real! Let's go to Bali!). I missed my chance.That's three cancer deaths in four months. Enough already!
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